Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds
Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:
>> That doesn't solve my problem: Should I
>
>> - make sure that the porters, buildd admins etc. are aware of the
>> problem and simply close the bug?
>
> You might want to downgrade the bug and only close it when it is realy
> solved?
And what would be the criterion for "solved"? After an analysis of
N build logs of random packages on that buildd show no segfaults any
more? I am not going to do that.
It's not a bug in my package; I am not going to take responsibility for
it.
>>> The one on ia64 breaks the buildd's chroot and looks to be easily solved
>>> by making sure that the maintainer scripts don't fail when the missing
>>> command is not available.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> It could be easily solved by making sure that nothing on the buildd
>> installs packages without installing their dependencies.
>
> A patch is appreciated, thanks for your cooperation.
Excuse me - that should already be guaranteed by dpkg, or am I missing
something? If it isn't on that machine, what kind of patch should I
write?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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